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I may be alone, but I'll generally take 2 19" non-widescreen monitors over a single giant monitor any day of the week. There's something (possibly as a minorit
by bbarn 12y ago
I may be alone, but I'll generally take 2 19" non-widescreen monitors over a single giant monitor any day of the week. There's something (possibly as a minority windows user) that I really like about throwing things from screen to screen. Especially when I have to do the rare front-end tweaks. Some people may be able to spit out perfect CSS without seeing the site they're working on, but I'm 95% a back end dev, so when I have to do the odd styling related task, it's a lot of try this, refresh, try this.. something that works about three times as fast when I have two monitors.
At work, I have three. 2 high quality widescreens, one center, one to the right, and a tiny (by my request) 17" standard ratio screen to the left that email sits on all day long. It moves so rarely that it catches my eye when it does, but again.. it was such a low cost investment that it's almost negligible. When I come home I have one large screen, and an old 17" standard screen to the left. The left screen is almost always playing a TV show or movie, and the center screen is everything from life, to work, to just wasting time.
If I had a single point with all of this, it's that windows don't mean the same to me as screens do. Even with the new win8/metro style interfaces ability to segment screens, I really like the "this one does this, this one does that" effect I get from two monitors.
- weissometer 12y agoI'm a mechanical engineer, but I largely feel the same way. I have one higher quality screen in front of me dedicated to Solidworks and a second screen dedicated to everything else; usually a task list/ McMaster-Carr/ Excel and Soundcloud or whatever music and task manager (need to know if Chrome + solidworks are eating ALL of the RAM).